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Gena Zhuk

1996, Moscow. Lives and works in Moscow

Gena Zhuk is an artist who has built his own visual language where irony meets strict compositional discipline. His painting is a flat surface filled with air and inner tension, where simplicity of form is the main tool. Gena captures states in which time seems to stop and the line between reality and its symbolic reflection fades. Having started with graffiti on the street in 2009, Zhuk has focused on studio work…